Marriage Enrichment Handbook used by Catholic Church

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Dear Prabhu's, Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila

Prabhupada!

 

The following link is a marriage enrichment handbook that the Catholic Church

uses for assisting married couples in their communication skills.

 

http://www.dioceseofraleigh.com/sites/marriage/marriagebook/index.html

 

There are 10 chapters, and various exercises in pdf format that you can

download for free.

 

Here is a list of the table of contents:

Chapter 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: Live Your Values

Exercise 1 Distinguish between Ideals and Values

Exercise 2 Live Your Values

Chapter 3: Know Your Mask

Exercise 1 Know Typical Masks

Exercise 2 Know Your Mask

Chapter 4: Know and Use Your Myers-Briggs Type

Exercise 1 Estimate Your Shadow Integration

Exercise 2 Integrate Your Shadow

Exercise 3 Compliment Your Spouse

Exercise 4 Typewatch Others

Chapter 5: Use All of Your Intelligences

Exercise 1 Access Your Intelligences

Chapter 6: Integrate Your Masculine and Feminine Sides

Exercise 1 Assess Your Masculinity and Feminity

Chapter 7: Stay Out of the Drama Triangle

Exercise 1 Identify Drama Triangle Roles

Exercise 2 Understand the Drama Triangle

Exercise 3 Stay out of the Drama Triangle

Chapter 8: Speak Each Other's Love Language

Exercise1 Identify Your Primary Love Languages

Chapter 9: Communicate Effectively

Exercise 1 Describe Feelings

Exercise 2 Distinguish between feelings and actions

Exercise 3 Change Your Attitudes

Exercise 4 Relate Feelings to Needs

Exercise 5 Distinguish Between Assertive, Passive and Aggressive Communication

 

Exercise 6 Evaluate Your Assertiveness

Exercise 7 Make an Assertive Interaction

Exercise 8 Check Out Inferences

Exercise 9 Explain the Reason behind your answers

Exercise 10 Give and ask for feedback.

Chapter 10: Listen Actively

Exercise 1 Don't Make other's problems your own

Exercise 2 Avoid Active Listening Behaviors

Exercise 3 Don't give advice

Exercise 4 Analyze your touch behavior

Exercise 5 Assess how effectively you listen.

Chapter 11: Confront Lovingly

Exercise 1 Analyze your conflict

Exercise 2 Avoid the Anger fallacies

Exercise 3 Ask for forgiveness

Exercise 4 Evaluate your conflict behavior

 

I hope you find this to be of some use!

 

Your servant,

Kalavati dd

(p.s. I am the webmaster for the site the handbook appears on. Please let me

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